Following that example was never going to be easy, but did the result have to be quite so sluggish?
Why is growth and innovation in some industries so sluggish?
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It tells you why the European economy has been so sluggish and also tells you why governments like Spain and Ireland have been on the brink of bankruptcy because their banks are so big they can't afford to rescue them.
So a sluggish economy in the wake of domestic problems and whatever else is happening in the eurozone.
Formal adoptions require paperwork and the co-operation of sluggish bureaucrats, so they are rare: in 1996 there were only 18 in the whole of Zambia.
The weak report could provide an answer toa question that has perplexed economists for months: Why is the employment picture improving so rapidly when economic growth is sluggish?
These are the two big banks in which taxpayers have huge stakes - so if their profits growth is more sluggish, that will also mean a postponement, probably a lengthy one, to taxpayers getting back all those tens of billions of pounds they've invested in the banks through their privatisation.
Lending growth is still relatively sluggish, and new laws limit bank fees, so the only way to improve the ratio is to lower costs.
The new Chromebook seems to be shackled by its 2 GB of RAM, with reviewers saying that the browser becomes sluggish after you open a dozen browser tabs or so.
Infraero, the sluggish state-owned monopoly that operates them, is so inefficient that for years it has failed to spend even half its budget for airport upgrades.
Over the past half of a decade or so, the cost of generating electricity has plunged as the result of sluggish economic growth and a glut of dirt cheap natural gas.
So, the technology advances I foresee are hostage to two of the most sluggish, hidebound industries in America: the phone and cable companies.
This injection of capital would bolster the banks so that they can lend again, addressing the purported credit crunch on which many Japanese now blame a sluggish economy (see article).
By interfacing with your laptop via the oh-so-speedy ExpressCard slot, this universal dock "quadruples" the amount of available bandwidth compared to the sluggish USB 2.0 offerings, and boasts an impressive "2.0Gbps of throughput" for your media-centric needs.
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